I'm Beau Timken, I'm a master sake sommelier, and in this segment we're talking about Ginjo sake. Where in the heck can you buy and try Ginjo sake? What I like doing is I like pressing the ownership and the responsibility of buying and maintaining sake on the restaurants. One of my favorite things to do is to go to restaurants and try multiple brews in that restaurant before I go and purchase a bottle by themselves. Now a lot of restaurants will move sake in the form of flights. They will actually have a little flight of three different brews, a Ginjo, A Daiginjo and a Junmai, let's say. But what I recommend if you want to start exploring and trying sake, definitely go to your local sushi restaurant, and you'll know that they'll have i, and then try to go to more cutting edge, Western restaurants that might introduce sake on the menu as well. Now if you're in a place that doesn't have a lot of sushi, you're kind of out of luck; what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to come, maybe go to some of the Google websites that do some shipping, on line shipping. Now, that said, I opened my store roughly six years ago and in that time I was the first dedicated sake store outside of Japan, really in the history of selling sake. Even in Japan they don't have dedicated sake stores, they have that sell, they'll sell sake and shochu and beer and all the other things. But since I've been, I call my store True Sake, America's true sake store, since that time now three other dedicated sake stores have come on line, in New York City and in Oregon and here also in San Francisco. Now, go to your wine merchant, go to your local wine shop and ask those guys to start carrying some sakes too. They will, gladly. Sake is the future. You're hearing it here first. And they want to learn too and they want to move products. More sake is being pushed sort of in the Mid-west. The skins of the country are saturated with sake. You can get them in Japan towns, in big cities, you can get them in Asian towns and other cities, you can definitely get them in any sushi restaurant, like I said. But wine stores and even liquor stores are starting to carry some brews. I just recommend starting with sakes that maybe have been imported, and then definitely try some of our local brews. But again, I would go to your local wine shop and say, Hey is there a way that you can start carrying sakes? And I myself am from the Mid-west and I know that there are a lot of brews in the Mid-west. You just have to be a little bit resourceful and you have to find them.
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